The views of Wuppertal assembled in this room show the diversity of the collection. As well as paintings of the city, there are photographs and prints, postcards and artefacts. An example of the latter is a magnificent cup from the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, decorated with a view of Elberfeld. Between the hills of the Wupper valley, the towers of St Laurentius Church, completed in 1835, can be seen. Three figures and a dog look down from an elevated vantage point on pre-industrial Elberfeld, not yet dominated by smokestacks or other industrial buildings.
One of the most popular and probably most striking motifs in local views is the suspension railway, captured by Oskar Schlemmer and Emmy Klinker, as well as the Wuppertal photographer Marie Luise Oertel. The painter Julius Mermagen, born in Munich in 1874, painted a view of Elberfeld from the street 'Am Buschhäuschen' on the Nützenberg a year before his death in 1953. Once again, the church of St Laurentius with its characteristic towers is clearly visible. Two putti border a stone balustrade belonging to one of the historic villas in the Briller quarter, from which the painter created his view of the town. In 1941, the landscape painter Georg Röder painted a special Barmen landmark: the Hohenstein natural monument, a striking dolomite rock that towers over the town with its chimneys and historic buildings. From 1885 Röder lived and worked in the growing industrial town of Barmen, where he attended the arts and crafts school. In 1901, Röder bought a house on the Sedansberg, which later became the 'Galerie Palette - Röderhaus', a meeting place for artists and politicians, as well as a studio, private museum, home and restaurant.
